There was an old woman tossed up in a basket,
Ninety times as high as the moon;
And where she was going, I couldn’t but ask her,
For in her hand she carried a broom.
“Old woman, old woman, old woman,” quoth I,
“Whither, O whither, O whither so high?”
“To sweep the cobwebs off the sky!”
“Shall I go with you? “Aye, by-and-by.”
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
The Candle-Lighters
When shadows creep at eventide
And little ones are safe inside,
Bright stars a-twinkling way up high
Are Fairies’ candles in the sky.
When shadows creep at eventide
The Fairies take their evening ride;
On flitting fireflies wafted high
They light their candles in the sky.
A Year With the Fairies.
Written by Anna M. Scott.
Illustrations by M. T. (Penny) Ross.
P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago, U.S.A. 1914.
THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE SWEEP.
Andersen’s Fairy Tales.
Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. Ca 1920.
“Oh! I am going to tell the King the sky is falling,” says Chicken Little.
“How do you know?” says Henny Penny.
“I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears, and a piece of it fell on my head.”
“May I come with you?” says Henny Penny.
“Certainly,” says Chicken Little.
Chicken Little.
M. A. Donohue & Company: Chicago & New York. 1919
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